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[Silverwing]

Pres Trump: "North Korea Will Denuclearize."

President Trump Showed Video To Kim About Economic Success If North Korea Follows Proper Path.

Judge clears AT&T's $85 billion bid for Time Warner with no conditions.

Seattle Quickly Reversed Controversial Head Tax On Big Business.

Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November ballot.

Brexit Worries As May's Deal Could Leave Ties To EU.

Vietnam Tightens Grip on Internet With Data-Storage Law, Protests Continue.

More Then Half of Millennials Expect To Be Millionaires Someday.

What does God look like? Liberals and Conservatives have different ideas.

[MasterXtreme]

Canada's Supreme Court rules LGBT rights trump religious freedom...

Canadian Judges Affirm Discrimination Against Christians.

Canadian Court Ruling Allows Secular Groups To Disallow Accreditation Based On Group Beliefs, Thus Disallowing Christian University To Get Accreditation For Law School...

Terrorist Prevention Fence Built Around Eiffel Tower...

Pakistan Taliban Leader Reportedly Killed By US Air Strike.

Cameroon seeks to delay elections.

Russia's planned tax hike drags on central bank's cutting cycle.

North Korea Returned Remains Of American Soldiers Back To US.

14-year old Jewish Girl Raped and Murdered By Muslim Refugee In Germany.

Journalist and Two Others Gunned Down By Islamic Radicals In India.

Tropical Storm Carlotta forms in Pacific near Mexico's Acapulco.

TV Ratings Down For World Cup.

Canada's First Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens In Vancouver.

[Silverwing]

US Creates 6th Branch of the Military, The Space Force.

US urges Russia to release certain political and religious prisoners

US and China Take Economic Shots At Each Other.

Germany's Merkel given ultimatum by interior minister over migration policy.

Armed Gunman Shot Dead By Store Shopper In Washington.

Armed Citizen Who Shot Gunman Seen As Hero.

Former Israeli energy minister charged with spying for Iran.

Christian Minority In Iraq Hopeful For Future.

Audi CEO Arrested Over Diesel Scandal.

Indiana State Trooper Lauded As A Hero.

[Silverwing]

30 Years After Global Warming "Announced As Science," Here is The Actual Outcome.

James E. Hansen wiped sweat from his brow. Outside it was a record-high 98 degrees on June 23, 1988, as the NASA scientist testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources during a prolonged heat wave, which he decided to cast as a climate event of cosmic significance. He expressed to the senators his “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed warming.”

With that testimony and an accompanying paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Mr. Hansen lit the bonfire of the greenhouse vanities, igniting a world-wide debate that continues today about the energy structure of the entire planet. President Obama’s environmental policies were predicated on similar models of rapid, high-cost warming. But the 30th anniversary of Mr. Hansen’s predictions affords an opportunity to see how well his forecasts have done—and to reconsider environmental policy accordingly.

Mr. Hansen’s testimony described three possible scenarios for the future of carbon dioxide emissions. He called Scenario A “business as usual,” as it maintained the accelerating emissions growth typical of the 1970s and ’80s. This scenario predicted the earth would warm 1 degree Celsius by 2018. Scenario B set emissions lower, rising at the same rate today as in 1988. Mr. Hansen called this outcome the “most plausible,” and predicted it would lead to about 0.7 degree of warming by this year. He added a final projection, Scenario C, which he deemed highly unlikely: constant emissions beginning in 2000. In that forecast, temperatures would rise a few tenths of a degree before flatlining after 2000.

Thirty years of data have been collected since Mr. Hansen outlined his scenarios—enough to determine which was closest to reality. And the winner is Scenario C. Global surface temperature has not increased significantly since 2000, discounting the larger-than-usual El Niño of 2015-16. Assessed by Mr. Hansen’s model, surface temperatures are behaving as if we had capped 18 years ago the carbon-dioxide emissions responsible for the enhanced greenhouse effect. But we didn’t. And it isn’t just Mr. Hansen who got it wrong. Models devised by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have, on average, predicted about twice as much warming as has been observed since global satellite temperature monitoring began 40 years ago.

What about Mr. Hansen’s other claims? Outside the warming models, his only explicit claim in the testimony was that the late ’80s and ’90s would see “greater than average warming in the southeast U.S. and the Midwest.” No such spike has been measured in these regions.

As observed temperatures diverged over the years from his predictions, Mr. Hansen doubled down. In a 2007 case on auto emissions, he stated in his deposition that most of Greenland’s ice would soon melt, raising sea levels 23 feet over the course of 100 years. Subsequent research published in Nature magazine on the history of Greenland’s ice cap demonstrated this to be impossible. Much of Greenland’s surface melts every summer, meaning rapid melting might reasonably be expected to occur in a dramatically warming world. But not in the one we live in. The Nature study found only modest ice loss after 6,000 years of much warmer temperatures than human activity could ever sustain.

Several more of Mr. Hansen’s predictions can now be judged by history. Have hurricanes gotten stronger, as Mr. Hansen predicted in a 2016 study? No. Satellite data from 1970 onward shows no evidence of this in relation to global surface temperature. Have storms caused increasing amounts of damage in the U.S.? Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show no such increase in damage, measured as a percentage of gross domestic product. How about stronger tornadoes? The opposite may be true, as NOAA data offers some evidence of a decline. The list of what didn’t happen is long and tedious.

The problem with Mr. Hansen’s models—and the U.N.’s—is that they don’t consider more-precise measures of how aerosol emissions counter warming caused by greenhouse gases. Several newer climate models account for this trend and routinely project about half the warming predicted by U.N. models, placing their numbers much closer to observed temperatures. The most recent of these was published in April by Nic Lewis and Judith Curry in the Journal of Climate, a reliably mainstream journal.

These corrected climate predictions raise a crucial question: Why should people world-wide pay drastic costs to cut emissions when the global temperature is acting as if those cuts have already been made?

On the 30th anniversary of Mr. Hansen’s galvanizing testimony, it’s time to acknowledge that the rapid warming he predicted isn’t happening. Climate researchers and policy makers should adopt the more modest forecasts that are consistent with observed temperatures.

That would be a lukewarm policy, consistent with a lukewarming planet.

[MasterXtreme]

US Air Force Investing In More Protection For Europe.

US cracks down on North Korea's army of overseas workers.

North Korea Cancels Anti-U.S. Rallies Marking 1950s War.

Venezuelan Army Takes Control Of Water Supply.

Tehran’s Grand Bazaar Shut Down as Economic Protests Spread in Iran.

Kenya-Somali border remains shut.

Philippine president slammed for calling God 'stupid', Citizens Angry.

86 Killed In Muslim/Christian Clash In Nigeria.

Royal Navy scrambled to 'intercept' two Russian warships heading towards Britain's coast.

Italy Continues To Deny Migrants.

Germany Angry With Italy.

Second Chinese Space Station Doing Strange Maneuvers Close To Earth.

Whale Crashed Into Alaska State Ferry.

Disney Facing Criticism of How It Is Handled Star Wars After Solo Film Flop.

Kenya's 'rapper priest' suspended by Catholic Church.

Donald Glover Being Accused of Plagiarism over "This Is America".

Netflix Shares Dive.

The Sims Banned In China and Middle East.

[Darrin]

Five Shot Dead At Annapolis, MD Newspaper Office, Shooter Captured, Had a "Vendetta" Against Paper.

Others Injured.

Trump-Putin Meeting Set For Finland.

German Navy Ship Catches Fire.

340 Million Effected In New Data Breach.

Pacific Northwest, Northeast, and Alaska Healthiest States.  South Least Healthy.

Trucker Shortage In America...

[RainySunshine]

Woman Claims Prime Minister Groped Her

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Denies Groping Female Reporter But Admits Accuser Might Have Felt Uncomfortable.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Arrives in North Korea to Try to Curb Its Nuclear Program.

America's Strong Stance At North Korea Makes Many New Allies In Asia.

Mexico Elects Liberal López Obrador President.

At Least 132 Political Candidates Have Been Killed Since Mexico’s Campaigning Began.

British Prime Minister Theresa May wins support from divided UK government on Brexit plan.

Europeans leaders worry Trump wants to fulfill promise to bring American troops home, Would force them to actually use their militaries.

U.S. and China slap trade tariffs on each other.

South Korea And Vietnam Continue To Build Navy Ties Against China.

World Elite Again Converge At Sun Valley, Idaho.

China Aiming For 7 Aircraft Carriers By 2025.

FAA To Passengers: Not Our Job To Regulate Seat Size, Legroom On Planes.

Millionaires Flee California After Tax Hike.

In Australia, the #MeToo goes in Reverse.

Germany's Merkel and Hungary's Orban get testy in public over how to handle refugees.

China Wants In On Germany.

Netflix is removing online reviews in August.

‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Lost Interview Goes Viral: Did Stanley Kubrick Finally Explain the Film’s Ending?

[Silverwing]

Trump and Putin Meet In Helsinki on Monday.

Explosive Canadian Tourism To The US, Despite Trade Flap.

Chicago police release body cam video of South Shore shooting, Suspect Acted Wildly.

French revel in World Cup victory.

Islamic Radicals Kill 133 and Injure over 200 in Pakistan Bombing Ahead of Election.

Islamic Gunmen Kill 11 in Education Compound in Afghanistan.

Sex Robot Addiction...

Jaguar Escapes New Orleans Zoo Killing Several Animals.

Amazing Helicopter Rescue On Top of Oregon Mountain.

[RainySunshine]

Rescuers Run To Action To Save Capsized Duck Boat In America's South.

Horrifying Duck Ride In Missouri Lake Ends In 17 Dead After Freak Storm.

60mph Winds Capsize Duck Boat In The Missouri Ozarks Town of Branson.

Amid Storm Warnings, Boat Continued Out On The Water.

9 From One Family Dead...

Texas Smashes Heat Records as State Uses More Energy Then Ever.

Pop-up tornadoes create nightmare throughout central Iowa.

Airbus Beluga XL Whale Takes Flight for the First Time.

Tech Taking Over Seattle's Bohemian Culture.

Ohio restaurant cancels Sunday church discount after outrage from Aethists.

Father of Parkland School Shooting Survivors Killed in North Lauderdale Armed Robbery...

More Tennesseans are sporting Confederate flag license plates than ever before.

Why Are "Thousands" of Teslas Sitting In a Field in California?

Russia's new hypersonic missiles were reportedly leaked to Western spies, infuriating the Kremlin.

James Gunn From ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Franchise After Old Tweets.

[MasterXtreme]

Israel fires tank shell at Hamas post after suspects infiltrate Gaza border.

Jeep and Ram's Mike Manley Named New CEO Of FCA Following Surprise Health Decline Of Sergio Marchionne.

French investigators raid home of Macron's ex-bodyguard.

Pakistan candidate kills himself after sons oppose him.

Rare summer nor’easter expected to pound American Northeast.

Suicide Blast Kills 22 in Afghanistan.

Rare Video Released of 'Final Member of Isolated Amazon Tribe'.

Study Finds Whale Shakes Are Bigger and Live Long Then Expected.

(Newly released footage shows an indigenous man believed to be the last remaining member of an isolated tribe in the Brazilian Amazon. The Brazilian government has been following him for 22 years.)

[RainySunshine]

2 Dead, 13 Injured in Toronto Shooting.

Suspect Shot and Killed By Toronto Police.

Shooter Identified as Faisal Hussain, age 29.

Suspect Tries To Stab Military Guard In Ottawa.

Deadly Flash Floods Hit Vietnam.

Rwanda hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian PM Narendra Modi.

Militant Islamists carries out attack on military base in Somalia.

ISIS Suicide Attack Kills 23 at Afghanistan Airport.

Kenyan Government Demolishes 30,000 Slum Homes In Nairobi.

Mass Fires Rage In Greece.

[Darrin]

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Toronto Attack.

FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne, 66, suddenly passes away.

New CEO Manley Assures FCA Future.

Facebook enters a death spiral as stock plunges over 24% in a few hours.

Facebook users leaving in mass, privacy push will erode profits for years.

80 Killed In Greek Fires.

Turkey vows to keep buying Iranian oil: 'We will not obey'.

Trump’s Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Destroyed With Pickaxe.

Top cardinal demands Vatican get tough with bishops on sex abuse.

NOAA’s Next-Gen Weather Satellite is Still Malfunctioning and May Not be Fixable.

Liquid water lake discovered on Mars.

Airbnb Being Used As a Brothel.

[Silverwing]

Wildfires Ravaging California's North.

Wildfire grows in Southern Oregon.

As China’s Woes Mount, Xi Jinping Faces Rare Rebuke at Home.

Refugee Crisis In Canada.

Priest punched, doused in wine, beaten with bottle in Delaware.

Autonomous Native American Nation Wants To Succeed From California.

BBC, FOX News, PBS ranked as TV's most trusted news brands.

More Illness Outbreaks At Chiptole..

Saudi man arrested after kissing his girlfriend on the cheek as he taught her to drive (in Saudi Arabia).

[RainySunshine]

Currently following the attempt at assassinating Venezuela's dictator leader, Nicolas Maduro.  Someone used a drone.  The State is blaming Columbia and the US, who both claim they had nothing to do with it.  It is most likely angry citizens and rebel groups, since Venezuela's Socialist  economy is completely collapsing. 

[Darrin]

DEVELOPING STORY

Horizon Airlines Plane Stolen From SeaTac International Airport.

F-15's Scramble To Intercept Stolen Passenger Plane In Washington State.

Plane Crashes On Remote Washington Island With No Passengers Aboard.

People All Over Filmed The Plane Flying Erratically.

Suspect Suicidal 29 Year Old, Not Terrorism.

Air Traffic Control Tried To Get Man To Land, Had Extensive Conversations.

Flights Grounded Temporarily From Largest Airport In Pacific Northwest.

Suspect Was Employee of Horizon Airlines, 29 Years Old.

Suspect Was Airline Mechanic.